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Feeds ami Feeding. 



icum, 55 bushels; Pamcum eras galli, 69 bushels, and Panicum 

 miliaceum, 28 bushels per acre. Brooks concludes that millet 

 cannot successfully compete with Indian corn under conditions 

 prevailing in Massachusetts. Millet seed resembles oats in com- 

 position, but we cannot point to experiments which definitely settle 

 the feeding value of the several varieties. 



Stewart! writes: "Millet meal is a highly appropriate food 

 for young or mature horses. It has a higher proportion of albu- 

 minoids and a higher nutritive ratio than oats, but having less 

 oil. It is found, when weU ground (and it cannot properly be 

 fed without grinding), to be one of the best rations for horses, 

 being particularly adapted to the development of muscular 

 strength." 



The culture of sorghums and millets for grain and forage is to 

 be recommended for the warmer districts of the United States, 

 where there is scant rainfall and where hot, drying winds prevail. 

 Where Indian com flourishes, these crops are not able to compete 

 with that great cereal. (272) 



rV. OU-bearinff Seeds and their By-products. 

 Digestible nutrients and fertilizing constituents. 



Name of feed. 



Dry 



matter 



in 100 



pounds. 



Digestible nutrients 

 In 100 pounds. 



Fertilizing constitu- 

 ents in 1,000 pounds. 



Pro- 

 tein. 



Carbo- 

 hy- 

 drates. 



Btlier 



ex- 

 tract. 



Nitro- 

 gen. 



Phos- 

 phoric 

 acid. 



Pot- 

 ash. 



Flax seed 



Linseed meal, old process.. 

 Liinseed meal, new process, 



Cotton seed. , 



Cotton-seed meal 



Cotton-seed hulls .._ 



Cocoanutmeal 



Palmnutmeal 



Sunflower seed 



Sunflower cakes 



Peanut meal 



Rape-seed meal 



Lbs. 



90.8 

 90.8 

 89.9 

 89.7 

 91.8 

 88.9 

 89.7 

 89.6 

 92.5 

 91.8 

 89.3 

 90.0 



Lbs. Lbs, 



20.6 

 29.3 

 28.2 

 12.5 

 37.2 

 0.3 

 15.6 

 16.0 

 12.1 

 31.2 

 42.9 

 25.2 



17.1 



32.7 

 40.1 

 30.0 

 16.9 

 33.1 

 38.3 

 52.6 

 20.8 

 19.6 

 22.8 

 23.7 



Lbs. 



29.0 



7.0 



2.8 



17.3 



12.2 



1.7 



10.5 



9.0 



29.0 



12.8 



6.9 



7.5 



Lbs. 



36.1 

 54.3 

 57.8 

 31.3 

 67.9 

 6.9 

 32.8 

 26.9 

 22.8 

 55.5 

 75.6 

 49.6 



Lbs. Lbs 



13.9 

 16.6 

 18.3 

 12.7 

 28.8 

 2.6 

 16.0 

 11.0 

 12.2 

 21.5 

 13.1 

 20.0 



10.3 



13.7 



13.9 



11.7 



8.7 



10.2 



24.0 



5.0 



5.6 



11.7 



15.0 



13.0 



199. Concerning oil-bearing seeds. — The leading oil-bearing 

 seeds in this country are from the flax and cotton plants. Others 

 i Feeding AnimaLi, 



